Petry, Habs Put Penguins on Brink of Elimination
Friday 37 Sports Friday, August 7, 2020 Petry, Habs put Penguins on brink of elimination Toews’ late tip-in lifts Blackhawks over Oilers TORONTO: Jeff Petry’s sharp-angle goal in the COYOTES 4, PREDATORS 1 third period Wednesday gave the Canadiens a 4- Darcy Kuemper made 39 saves to lead Arizona 3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 of past Nashville in Game 3 of their best-of-five their qualifying-round series, moving Montreal Western Conference qualifying series in Edmon- ahead two games to one in the best-of-five set at ton. Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist, and Toronto. Montreal, seeded 12th and last among Christian Dvorak, Conor Garland and Carl Soder- Eastern Conference postseason participants, berg also scored for the Coyotes, who grabbed a pushed the fifth-seeded Penguins into an elimina- 2-1 series lead heading into Game 4 on Friday. tion game Friday. Petry, who scored in overtime in Viktor Arvidsson scored and Juuse Saros made 24 Game 1, broke a 3-3 tie and scored Montreal’s saves for the Predators. third unanswered goal at 5:33 of the third. He BLACKHAWKS 4, OILERS 3 lifted a shot from the bottom of the left circle that Jonathan Toews scored the game-winner with went off the mask of goaltender Matt Murray, off 76 seconds remaining, and Chicago claimed a the crossbar and in. Shea Weber added a goal and stunning win over Edmonton to move within a vic- two assists, Paul Byron a goal and an assist, tory of advancing to the Stanley Cup playoffs’ Jonathan Drouin a goal and Ben Chiarot two as- round of 16.
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